For truth is strong next to the Almighty. She needs no policies or stratagems or licensings to make her victorious. These are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power.

For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.

The earth, though in comparison of heaven so small, nor glistering, may of solid good contain more plenty than the sun, that barren shines.

Still paying, still to owe. Eternal woe!

The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.

Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones.

Methought I saw my late espoused saint.